To celebrate the Chelsea Flower Show, a number of London restaurants and hotels are offering floral-themed afternoon teas and special menus.

Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show runs until May 25 at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. As has become customary, restaurants and hotels around the area are serving limited-edition, floral-inspired afternoon teas, dinner and lunch menus, and cocktails to celebrate the occasion. Should the show whet your appetite for more, here are some nearby places where you can have your fill of flowers.

Afternoon teas

Celebrating its 175th anniversary this year, Brown’s Hotel is serving a floral-themed afternoon tea that includes scones with rose and strawberry jam, violet macaroons and rosewater éclairs. It costs £39.50 per person and is available from May 27 to June 2.

Garden gnomes have been allowed at this year’s show following a long-term ban and, in response to the decision, The Park Lane Hotel has created an afternoon tea that features an edible figurine as its centrepiece. The tea is available until June 9 and costs £45 per person.

At the Corinthia Hotel, The Secret Garden Afternoon Tea serves a selection of attractive, floral-themed specialities. From the menu, The Chinese Garden is a chocolate bamboo cane embellished with oriental butterflies, The Potting Shed is a miniature flower pot built from chocolate fudge cake. The limited-edition menu is available until May 25 and costs £39 per person.

In Knightsbridge, The Capital Hotel’s Floral Afternoon Tea features treats such as vanilla doughnuts with hibiscus & apple; a light lavender and almond sponge; and strawberries with elderflower cream. Also on offer is the hotel’s floral cocktail 'The Chelsea Girl' (a mixture of vodka, grapefruit juice, apple juice, honey liqueur and the hotel owner's homemade Levin Rose Wine Jelly). The menu costs from £29.50 and is available throughout the summer.

At Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, Eric Lanlard’s latest creation is the Mon Beau Papillon afternoon tea, which has been inspired by the patissier’s observation of butterflies flitting between flowers and the different petals they land on. You can count on a Frenchman to add a touch of poetry to his pastries. Available over summer, the menu includes mini raspberry macarons with smoked duck and chilli jelly, a pear and walnut choux bun and white chocolate butterflies. It costs £40 per person.

Lunch, dinner and dessert

At Tom Aikens Restaurant in Chelsea, guests can participate in a two-hour floristry class led by London florist Nikki Tibbles of Wild at Heart, before enjoying a floral-inspired lunch menu. The class will focus on creating impressive floral arrangements using freshly cut flowers, be they table centrepieces or handheld bouquets, while the three-course lunch menu includes dishes such as salmon with viola and violet flowers or chicken with marigolds, lemon puree and vanilla oil. The masterclass and lunch offer continues until May 25 and costs £120 per person. The package includes the class, lunch, morning coffee and pastries, a welcome drink and a bouquet to take home.

At three Michelin starred Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester, the ‘Lunch Flower’ menu draws heavily from floral ingredients and the landscape of Hyde Park, just across the road. Dishes include ‘vegetable tart in bloom’ and, for dessert, an enigmatically titled ‘rose and raspberry pleasure’. Good for those in a rush, the menu is served in under an hour and costs £55 for three courses – that also covers two glasses of wine, a half bottle of water and coffee or tea. It is available until May 25.

At the Bulgari Hotel in Knightsbridge, the Chelsea Flower Show lunch menu again incorporates flowers, such as pansies and elderflowers, into its dishes. Costing £30 for three courses, the menu is served in the hotel’s Il Ristorante, which will feature a specially created floral tree, decorated with 100 roses, as its centrepiece.

The rooftop terrace at Fifth Floor Harvey Nichols regularly hosts different pop-ups - L’Alchimie de Courvoisier is currently in the space and will remain in situ until June 20. To celebrate the flower show, and to display the different ways in which cognac can be used, the bar will offer a cocktail and dessert pairing called Exclusif-ly Chelsea. Those who order it will receive a concoction containing Courvoisier cognac, ginger, blueberries, violet syrup and lemon, along with a trio of desserts. It costs £45 per person and remains on the menu for as long as the pop-up is open.

Ten years old this year, Manicomio Chelsea is serving a Chelsea in Bloom set menu until May 26. Dishes such as cucumber soup with goats curd and mint and jasmine tea tiramisu are on offer; two courses cost £21.75, three courses come in at £26.75.

By Sloane Square, Le Cercle is offering what it describes as a “flowery feast”. The five-course menu includes guinea fowl with garden peas, verbena and tulip and salmon with violet tea oil and citrus relish. It costs £39.50 (including a welcome drink) or £64.50 with sommelier wine pairing; it’s on offer until May 25.

This year’s Chelsea Flower Show is being complemented by the fringe event Chelsea in Bloom. As part of these supplementary celebrations, the local Partridge’s Food Market will serve a selection of appropriately floral dishes in an environment that is much more casual than many of the options listed above. Visitors there can, for example, sample green tea infused with elderberry, rose and peonies from Yumchaa or lavender and caramel cupcakes from Crumbs and Dollies.

At the Ten Room in the recently opened Café Royale, the menu du jour has been modified to mark the flower show. Dishes on offer include asparagus and rosemary flower risotto; a two-course menu costs £20, with three courses coming in at £28 – either option includes a glass of champagne. The menu is available until May 26.